Access from a distance. Photo: Wired.

Google has released a long-awaited Chrome extension that lets users access remote machines from the company’s web browser and its browser-based Chromebook laptops.

Known as Chrome Remote Desktop, this “beta” extension is similar to existing remote access tools such as Citrix’s GoToMyPC and Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection, and it’s an important part of Google’s effort to push its Chromebooks into the enterprise.

According to Google’s release notes, the extension could be used by a remote IT helpdesk. But it’s also a means of running legacy applications t...

The people who did the most to change music culture in the past have been musicians. In the 60s: The Beatles, The Stones, James Brown, Motown. In the 70s: Led Zeppelin, Sly Stone. In the 80s: Run DMC, Michael Jackson. In the 90s: Nirvana, Snoop Dog.

But in the last decade plus, the American music scene has been changed less by any artist or movement than it has by the iPod. The legacy of Steve Jobs cast a large shadow over the music world. He’s as much of a game changer as the Beatles and Run DMC.

These are not changes he set out to make: He just released an awesome product. But the way people...